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Designing the Creative Child : Playthings and Places in Midcentury America /

The postwar American stereotypes of suburban sameness, traditional gender roles, and educational conservatism have masked an alternate self-image tailor-made for the Cold War. The creative child, an idealized future citizen, was the darling of baby boom parents, psychologists, marketers, and designe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ogata, Amy Fumiko, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Object Lessons
  • Constructing Creativity in Postwar America
  • Educational Toys and Creative Playthings
  • Creative Living at Home
  • Building Creativity in Postwar Schools
  • Learning Imagination in Art and Science
  • Epilogue : The Legacy of Consuming Creativity.